Don Messer Story Lyrics - Singles - Stompin' Tom Connors

He was born in ol' New Brunswick 

In the early part of May 1909 

Six years old he played the fiddle 

At the barn dance on the old York County line 

Every year Don got better 

He dreamed about that fortune down the track 

Then he came down To Saint John city 

Where he formed the Old New Brunswick Lumberjacks 

Don Messer played rings around the mountain 

He played reels all across the plaines 

He played all that kind of music 

That has made the country proud to say his name 

Soon his band would have a singer 

Charlie Chamberlain would join the Messer fleet 

And travel to Prince Edward Island 

To play on radio for twelve bucks everyweek 

On the air right after supper 

Commencing in the year of '39 

The man would say 

It's Old Don Messer & the Islanders form down the Maritimes 

Don Messer played rings around the mountain 

He played reels all across the plaines 

He played all that kind of music 

That has made the country proud to say his name 

Coast to coast with Don & Charlie 

Duke Neilson, Ray Simmonds played it up 

Born to Gray with Sea Speackrin 

Now the Islanders went touring to the top 

How Charlie sang with Margret Osbourn 

And Waldo made the old piano twang 

For the Queen they played in concert 

And it was magic how Don Messer's fiddle rang 

Don Messer played rings around the mountain 

He played reels all across the plaines 

He played all that kind of music 

That has made the country proud to say his name 

Seventeen years on television 

From 1956 to '73 

Don Messer made his mark forever 

The fiddling king of country music history 

Through out the world it's undisputed 

Don Messer & The Islanders were tops 

And away down east beside the ocean 

The kind of music they began will never stop 

Don Messer played rings around the mountain 

He played reels all across the plaines 

He played all that kind of music 

That has made the country proud to say his name 

He has made the country proud to say his name